As a part of a linguistic class taught by Prof. Vamarasi at Northeastern
Illinois University in the spring of 2001, I did a term paper
that involved some research in prescriptive and descriptive resources on
the web. Since I find the study of linguistics of particular interest
(although I'm not sure I'd want to make a career of it!) here is a list
of resources that I've used, that I continue to use, and which anyone might
find useful or interesting.

(Hint: when reading text on-line, open up a NEW browser, and point
this at one of dictionaries above. Continue reading in one browser,
but cut-and-paste unfamiliar words to look them up in the other browser.
This is much more convenient and faster than trying to manipulate a single
browser window between the text you're interested in and the dictionary.)